METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

摘要

Mobile and automated processing utilizes additive manufacturing. Methods include the utilization of mobile and automated processing apparatus. The mobile additive manufacturing apparatus may perform surface treatments that alter the topography of an existing roadway surface. Other examples may involve the processing of dimensionally large layers which may be joined together to create large pieces with three dimensional shape. A mobile additive manufacturing apparatus, called an Addibot, is configured to comprise a drive system which may be operative to move the apparatus along a surface. The Addibot may function with no physical tether. The Addibot may comprise a navigation system which among other functions may determine the Addibot' s current location and its current bearing or direction that it would travel in when caused to move or is travelling in if moving.